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A seat inside LinkedIn for search and InMail. The help article does not print a dollar price.
As of 13 October 2026. The notes below are taken from the public pages listed at the end. Those pages can change.
RecruitMCP does not sell a LinkedIn seat, InMail, or a search of that member network. This page compares access and price. It does not say that RecruitMCP profiles come from LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn's own recruiting products: Recruiter, Recruiter Professional Services, Recruiter Professional Services Plus, and Recruiter Lite. Search and InMail run inside LinkedIn.
RecruitMCP
An HTTP API and an MCP server. Call it from Claude Desktop, claude.ai, Claude Code, or your own code.
LinkedIn Recruiter
Recruiter Lite can be bought online as a monthly or yearly subscription, and the article says you can cancel at any time. A first signup may be eligible for a free trial. Recruiter Lite is not available to members in China. Recruiter, Recruiter Professional Services, and Recruiter Professional Services Plus say to contact LinkedIn's sales team.
RecruitMCP
Self-serve. Create a workspace, confirm your email, and get 1,250 credits. No card.
LinkedIn Recruiter
Not public. The article's pricing row says to visit the Recruiter Lite page to sign up, and to contact LinkedIn's sales team for the other three products. It does not print a dollar amount. The article showed a last-updated line of three weeks when read on this date.
RecruitMCP
You pay for a result that comes back. A returned lead is 1 credit. A live profile is 2 credits. A live company lookup is 1 credit. A preview spends nothing. The price of a found contact is shown in the estimate before it runs. Outreach is €49 per connected account per month, not per message.
LinkedIn Recruiter
Recruiter Lite's collaboration table lists a multi-user dashboard and shared projects for up to 5 seats. The other products are team licenses. The article does not print a per-seat dollar price.
RecruitMCP
No seats. API keys in a workspace share one balance.
LinkedIn Recruiter
InMail: 30 per seat per month on Recruiter Lite, 100 on Recruiter Professional Services, 140 on Recruiter Professional Services Plus, and 150 on Recruiter. Lite searches up to 3rd-degree connections with 20 filters and has no ATS integration. The team products list 40+ filters and ATS integrations for 28+ partners. Hiring Assistant is an add-on on Recruiter Professional Services Plus and on Recruiter.
RecruitMCP
Search, profiles, companies, contacts, lists, and outreach. No ATS, no CRM, no interview scheduling, and no interview notes. RecruitMCP does not score people.
LinkedIn Recruiter is the product for searching and messaging inside LinkedIn. Team products add shared projects, more InMail, and ATS integrations with 28+ partners. RecruitMCP does not replace that seat.
LinkedIn Recruiter is named so you can tell which product this is. RecruitMCP is not affiliated with LinkedIn Recruiter, and this page does not use its logo.